Sentences with phrase «sufficient faith in it»

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Although the creeds of our denomination pay lip service to the idea that Scripture is «authoritative» and «sufficient for faith and practice,» many of us have moved far beyond that notion in our theological thinking.

The worst harm done by gratuitous, judgmental proclamations that «AIDS is God's damning curse upon homosexuals» is precisely in the tremendous temptation on the part of the AIDS sufferer to believe it, thus raising one more obstacle to faith in God's all - sufficient grace.

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If we take the general principles in the Gospels of why Jesus healed some people but not others, the most likely reason is that Jesus, looking into this man's heart, saw that he was of sufficient faith and character to accept the healing, whereas the others there were not.

It was sufficient to recognize in them the response of faith, and he said, «Your faith has made you whole.»

Ibn Abd al - Wahhab also held that the recital of the creed — I testify that there is no God but God and Muhammad is the Messenger of God — is not sufficient testimony of one's faith in Islam but must be accompanied by other devotions such as prayer and almsgiving.

It would be a strange thing, would it not, to be accepted by God into covenant relationship through faith in Jesus Christ, all sins having been forgiven, and then transition into a walk where even petition wouldn't be sufficient for forgiveness of sins but overcoming would supplant petition.

In reacting from the too simple idea that with sufficient faith prayer can change anything, we rightly emphasize the new power that we receive from it.

First, in every domain of teaching the following essentials of religious faith should be emphasized and demonstrated in the teacher's own outlook: That the world, man, and his culture are neither self - sufficient nor self - explanatory but are derived from given sources of being, meaning, and value.

The only way in which we can overcome our impotence and save our civilization is by the discovery of a sufficient faith.

(But) when there is not faith sufficient (on his part), a want of faith (in him) ensues (on the part of the others).

The experience of God portrayed in the New Testament is sufficient for me, and I am sure that your Christian faith and life need no help from any speculative theory of Triunity.

No longer admitting that the witness of the Holy Spirit in and through the Word is sufficient, certain evangelicals have attempted to develop rationalistic supports for their faith.

It is also not sufficient to say that Jesus» concept of God was no philosophical theory (true as that is), and that his belief in God as the cause of all that happens did not, in Jesus» undeveloped thought, untrained in logical consistency, exclude the assumption of other active causes of world events; that the strength of Jesus» faith in God is shown precisely in his holding fast, in spite of the belief in Satan, to the thought of God as the final cause of all events.

If we can not within these structures find moral guidance from the law of love and moral stability from faith in God as he comes to us in Christ, not even the most rapturous experience of joy and peace through the lifting of the burden of sin will be sufficient.

This is sufficient for our faith — that we have a trustworthy guide — and this fits with our common sense in a way that other kinds of claims about Jesus do not.

Scholars such as John B. Cobb and David R. Griffin have developed the Christological implications of Whiteheadian process - relational thought in a number of widely read works in recent years.1 «Evangelical» Christians, holding the Christian scriptures to be the uniquely inspired and authoritative charter documents of their faith, and finding in these scriptures a Christ whose divine humanity defies explanation in terms of any general metaphysical scheme, have had for the most part little interest in or even contact with these process - relational Christologies.2 That revelation presents to us this Christ is sufficient warrant for believing him; his being is, at any rate, incommensurate with ours.

Are the reachings out for spiritual community with sincere believers of other faiths to be one - sided, in that the insights of Western Christianity alone are to be held true and sufficient, and the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism and Islam (and Judaism, for that matter) simply yearnings toward fulfillment in Christianity, as has been held for so many years?

Webber writes: «In the first place evangelicals should recognize that a doctrine of inerrancy is not a sufficient basis for authority... evangelicals should recognize that the key to interpreting Scripture is the «rule of faith.»»

The Protestant emphasis on Scripture as a sole and sufficient guide for faith has made us deficient in drawing on other traditions of the church.

Ask a Mormon if faith alone in Jesus Christ is sufficient for eternal salvation.

If they agree that faith alone in Jesus Christ is sufficient for eternal salvation then tell them that they are either divergent from stated Mormon precepts or that they don't really understand what they're «supposed» to believe.

It follows, therefore, that the resources of metaphysics are not sufficient in themselves to exhaust the meaning and profundity of the Christian faith and the nature of man and God as interpreted in the light of that faith.

It is a mighty act of God in, through, and out of a mighty act of faith sufficient to override the brash, persistent, painful, sometimes uncontrollable, bursts of mortal unfaith.

Rather, assuming that we agree with your premise — that people who believe these things remain unsaved — there is another entirely viable option: that it is not sufficient to believe these things apart from the promise of eternal life by faith alone in Christ, but that these these are indeed essential elements of the gospel that must be believed for salvation.

They couched the promise of eternal life (in other words the terms to receive eternal life, which is faith into Jesus Christ in His promise) in the message of the gospel, which has as one of its purposes, to persuade and convince its hearers that Jesus Christ is worthy, sufficient, authoratative, qualified, and trustworthy to receive our faith in for eternal life.

The General Counsel or the Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee shall cause all Complaints to be investigated, unless he or she believes that the Complaint was not made in good faith or unless the Complaint was made anonymously and does not contain sufficient information to conduct an investigation.

In its decision, the EC has opaquely said, «After careful analysis of all relevant elements, we have come to the conclusion that the UK has provided sufficient clarification as regards its narrow interpretation of Sections 58 and 60 [the relevant law], which merely enables the faith - based education and is limited to ensure the maintenance of the religious character of the school.

«You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind...

My long - term fundamental faith in local democracy, and a recognition that there are sufficient incentives in place -[such as the requirements of employers and universities]- that keep school standards from straying too far afield makes me rest easier than my critics.

Educators can present evidence that they gave sufficient notice, helped a district hire a replacement, worked until a replacement took over, helped train a replacement, communicated with the district in good faith, and provided instructional support such as lesson plans.

(3) that the public entity seeking temporary relief has made good faith efforts tolocate a qualified manufacturer to supply the lifts to the manufacturer of such buses in sufficient time to comply with such solicitation; and (4) that any further delay in purchasing new buses necessary to obtain such lifts would significantly impair transportation services in the community served by the public entity.

For example, to write a simple bear call spread on the S&P 500, you would need to have sufficient margin (a «good - faith» performance bond) in your account to open the position.

Given the potentially exponential growth in the magnitude and intensity of environmental challenges such as Climate Change, putting one's faith in continued solid economic growth and sufficient technological innovation seems foolhardy to say the least.

Failure to assure sufficient evidence when accusing someone of bad faith, when it might have significant consequences in the real world, I would agree is ««not OK.»

Only those with faith in God have sufficient detachment from themselves to abandon port cities that are no longer port cities.

[127] Professor Piché in her text Fairness in Class Action Settlements, supra at pp. 179 - 80 summarizes the various factors for the settlement approval test into seven factors; i.e.: (1) judicial risk analysis: likelihood of recovery, or likelihood of success on the merits weighed against amount and form of settlement relief; (2) future expense, complexity and likely duration of litigation; (3) class reaction: number and nature of objections; (4) recommendations and experience of counsel and opinion of interested persons; (5) adequacy of representation: good faith and absence of collusion; (6) discovery evidence sufficient for «effective representation» and (7) adequacy of notice of proposed settlement to absent class members.

Employers must demonstrate that they acted in good faith, based on sound and sufficient information, therefore having bona fide business reasons for immediate action after reasonable consideration of the interests of all parties.

Energy presented sufficient evidence to allow a reasonable fact finder to conclude that HOTF, the patent holder, acted in bad faith, and therefore its claim for tortious interference fell within the bad - faith exception to preemption.

[i] t is sufficient if the party, to whom the assurance is given, acts on the faith of it - in such circumstances that it would be unjust and inequitable for the party making the assurance to go back on it.

Perell J. held that there was no reason to doubt the plaintiffs» good faith and that, while the evidence adduced by the plaintiffs would have satisfied the second arm of the test, the Cai Brothers had been noted in default and their deemed admissions of the factual allegations in the Statement of Claim were sufficient to satisfy the section 138.8 test.

Thus, in the final rule we provide that a covered entity may disclose protected health information in response to a subpoena, discovery request or other lawful process that is not accompanied by a court order if it receives satisfactory assurance from the party seeking the request that the requesting party has made a good faith attempt to provide written notice to the individual that includes sufficient information about the litigation or proceeding to permit the individual to raise an objection to the court or administrative tribunal and that the time for the individual to raise objections has elapsed (and that none were filed or all have been resolved).

In meeting the first test, a covered entity is considered to have received satisfactory assurances from the party seeking the information if that party demonstrates that it has made a good faith effort (such as by sending a notice to the individual's last known address) to provide written notice to the individual whose information is the subject of the request, that the written notice included sufficient information about the proceeding to permit the individual to raise an objection, and that the time for the individual to raise objections to the court or administrative tribunal has elapsed and no objections were filed or any objections filed by the individual have been resolved.

Even if the respondent should have told the appellants in a more timely fashion that the barn would have no pigs at the time of closing, it did not amount to a breach of the duty of good faith, per Bhasin v. Hrynew, 2014 SCC 71, sufficient to trigger a remedy for the appellants given the terms of the contract.

These initiatives are sufficient to give kinship carers some faith in the government to deliver creative and responsive programs.

The Court also considered that in this case, the broader negotiations the parties had embarked on were sufficient to discharge the obligation to negotiate in good faith in relation to the particular future act in question.

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